In 1803, war erupted in Europe once again. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near ...

Joaquin Phoenix plays famous leader Napoleon Bonaparte, starting with the French Revolution. Vanessa Kirby plays his eventual wife Josephine. French film star Ludivine Sagnier is also part of the ...

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He also posted them on X moments later (archived): Many people recognized the passage as a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, the first emperor of France. It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was specially ordered for the personal use by the French emperor will be auctioned in Paris next month, an auction house said. Napoleon ordered the ...

One of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous black hats sold for more than $2 million at an auction in France on Sunday. The €1.932 million ($2.1 million) sale set a record for Napoleon’s trademark ...

PARIS — A faded and cracked felt bicorne hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte sold for $2.1 million ... We are at 1.5 million (euros) for Napoleon’s hat ... for this major symbol of the ...

Call it the 18th-century equivalent of being ghosted. On his military campaigns, French general (and later emperor) Napoleon Bonaparte would send his wife Josephine mostly unrequited love letters.

Directed by Ridley Scott, Napoleon is based on the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte (Phoenix). The film — which Decider’s Meghan O’Keefe describes as an “intriguing experiment in ...

One letter penned by Major Gideon Gorrequer to Wynyard on the day after Napoleon's death reads: 'Bonaparte expired yesterday evening at 10 minutes before six. 'Just at the very instant the sun ...